The 'AXE' Effect

First things first.. If you are planning to take a new broadband connection at home, My sincere advice do not go for Tata Indicom. Its the worst broadband service available in the market. Speed is good but the problem is the connection, that will go down after ever 15-20 days and then you have to wait for same amount of time before it gets fixed again and that includes millions of phone calls to the unresponsive customer care.

Finally after a long long wait I've a net connection up and running at home and to add onto the fun a lot of free time also. So i started with the best time-pass site, and that has to be Orkut. Going through the profiles of old hostel friends and trying to figure out what they are upto in life these days gave an amazing sense of satisfaction. The midnite gossip session of hostel that were a source of know-it-all thing about the hostellites has now been replaced by orkut.
I'm not going to tell about the things I came to know from Orkut, coz we all know what use does it serve. ;-)

Well.. I'll try to put here things or effects that I've observed in me, you and everyone else around because of orkut. By the way every bit of this is original and is not copied from any forwards :-) And as the part of disclaimer, this is an art of fiction and I do not take any responsibility of any of it being true....

1.)The 'Camera' Effect
You start posing for cameras and want the soft copy of every pic that has 'YOU' in the frame, afterall 'YOU' never know which profile pic will look good on orkut. In short every pose 'YOU' make, every photo 'YOU' shoot is directly or indirectly shot keeping Orkut in mind.

2.) The 'Social' Effect
Threats about Nuclear Bombs, and Bio-Chemical bombs is a thing of past. We are now facing another serious issue. Its the threat of a Social Bomb.And that is publicising about something that 'YOU' did or were caught doing or may be you never did, on Orkut amongst all your friends/relatives/known/unknown.
"Abe tu kal kiske sath ghoom raha tha.. Acha nahi batayega, ruk kal orkut par sabko scrap karta hoon, Ravi caught with three girls in forum". And bechara ravi has to tell it all. After all everyone of us is scared of a Gang Bang!!!!

3.)The 'Relationship' Effect
There are three stages in the relation-ship status on orkut for all the bachelors. (Married people have no option other than Married for them). The first stage is single, where you are eyeing on lot of girls/boys but none of them is giving you any signal what so ever. The second stage is No Answer. In this stage you are eyeing on only one girl/boy and she/he is giving either giving you either confusing signals or absolutely no signal. And the third stage is when that one person whom you were eyeing on has given you a Green signal and then 'YOU' are committed.
The added advantage of being in this stage is increased no. of scraps, people asking you "abe kaun hai woh"?

4.) The 'FAN' Effect
'YOU' tend to become the fan of all the people in your friend's list, even if you hate them or even if you don't know them in a hope that they will respond to it in a postive way and increase your fan count!!! So next time you see someone whom you hated the most in hostel or some arbit stranger in your fan's list, remember they are the publicity/attention hungry people who love to see more than 100 fans in their profile, please acknowledge them. After all its a good practice to feed the hungry.

5.) The 'Character' Effect
After reading testimonials of some known person you start wondering whether this guy is really so good. I was going through a profile of a most hated person of my batch in the hostel, who in everyone's opinion was also one of the most self-centered individual had so many good things written about him in his testimonials.Something like He is a gem of a person, a most caring person I've come across. And then i noticed that all this were written by a person of the fairer sex who also happened to be the reason for that guy's relationship status being committed. So in short don't believe in the testimonials written for an individual by a person of opposite sex.

6.) The 'Name' Effect
Changing your profile name on Orkut is another publicity stunt. Basically to increase the scrap count. So if you see anyone who has changed his profile name on Orkut, please scrap him/her. Again as I said its a good practice to feed the hungry.

7.)The 'Unsolicited Scrap' Effect
a)****This is for Guys ***** If some girl has not put her pic on orkut there are two things possible, either she is very beautiful and is getting unsolicited scraps in heaps and that is why she has removed her pics, or she is not beautiful and at the same time not self-confident of herself. In either case don't try on her, In first case, 99% of chance is there that she is already going out with some one (Good ones are always taken u see!!!) and in the second case, the girl is not worth a try (not because she is not beautiful but because she is not self confident!!! Hope people don't take me wrong here).
b) *****This is for Girls**** If some unknown person is trying to be friends with you by writing sweet scraps, chances are that he is writing the same scrap to other twenty three thousand four hundred forty six girls also.
You are the best person to decide to accept his friend's request or not. Its always better to go through his scrap book first.




P.S.- The title to this blog is another publicity stunt. Hope it works the same way on my blog as seen on TV!!! :-)